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RotRed The JA Designs Najla Mansour Jerald Angelo Juatco Designer since: Designer since: Location: Location: I love everything about the group…but the thing I like most is the contests. It will boost your creativity and you will gain inspiration from other designers. Najla knew at age 15 that she wanted to Spending time on social media is more be a graphic designer, but when it was than a pastime for Jerald. For him, it’s a time to choose a path, she chose career. He specializes in social media Architecture. Najla says that one of the design, providing the kind of customization most important things she learned in that can make a business page or site school is how to meet the challenges of stand out from the crowd. That niche designing for someone other than evolved after Jerald won several Facebook yourself. design contests. He realized social media 2009 Syria 2013 Philippines represented an unfulfilled need, and he At 99designs, Najla works hard to loved the challenge of trying to come up understand what her clients are looking with something out-of-the-box, catching, for and to then bring that concept to life. and appealing to fill it. But meeting clients’ requirements hasn’t dampened her passion one bit! “Design is my life,” she enthuses. “Every time you finish a design, you feel that you brought something to life, you gave something a soul, something came from your mind and thoughts – this is what I call creation.” So do we, Najla, so do we.